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Loggerhead Marinelife Center, a nonprofit sea turtle conservation center in Juno Beach, logged 14,951 total sea turtle nests on the beach during sea-turtle nesting season, which runs from March to ...
Sea turtle nesting season in 2023 was a record breaker for coastal communities in Broward County, officials said Monday. The season runs between March 1 and Oct. 31, and is essential for the ...
Florida’s 2023 turtle nesting season, which runs from March through October, is only halfway through and has already reached record-breaking numbers.
The number of recorded nests this year is close to 1,500, an all-time high for Volusia County. What is behind the big numbers? Here is what we know.
Cayo Costa has many volunteers who check the entire nine-mile beach each morning during sea turtle nesting season (during the months of March through October in southwest Florida) in order to find nests and document them. The loggerhead turtle is found far more than the others, and the green turtle is a distant second.
JUNO BEACH – It’s turtle walk season, a time when people can witness one of the Atlantic Coast environment’s most remarkable moments: sea turtle nesting.. Local residents and visitors in ...
The Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) System, located along a twenty-mile (30 km) section of coastline from Melbourne Beach to Wabasso Beach, Florida, along State Road A1A. The 900 acre (3.6 km 2) refuge was established in 1991, to protect the loggerhead and green sea turtles.
The Florida softshell turtle is a large turtle with a flattened, pancake-like body, a long neck, an elongated head with a long snorkel-like nose, and large webbed feet, each with three claws. While most turtles have hard shells composed of scutes, the Florida softshell turtle has a cartilaginous carapace covered in leathery skin